Historic Building Details

HB Ref No:
HB06/12/027

Address :
St Mary’s Primary School Agnew Street Larne Co Antrim BT40 1RF

Townland:
Town Parks

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Survey 2:
Record Only

Date of Listing:

Date of De-listing:

Current Use:
School

Former Use
School

Conservation Area:
No

Industrial Archaeology:
No

Vernacular:
No

Thatched:
No

Monument:
No

Derelict:
No

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OS Map No:
70/8 SE

IG Ref:
D4043 0277

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Owner Category

Church - RC

Exterior Description And Setting

A gabled single-storey school with a flat-roofed entrance block at one end. Wet dashed walls, painted white; slated roof; large rectangular metal framed windows to main block with ocular windows and large ball finials to each end gable. The building stands well off the road immediately surrounded by tarmac and reached by a tarmac path, and is sited close to a listed Victorian church.

Architects

Not Known

Historical Information

Built in 1925 as St Mary’s Girls Public Elementary School; later named St Mary’s Primary School; merged with St Joseph’s Primary School to become St MacNissi’s Primary School in 1993. References - Secondary 1. The Parish of Larne: A Short History (Larne, 1994).

Criteria for Listing

Architectural Interest

Not listed

Historic Interest

Not listed

Evaluation

An example of an inter-war school which retains some of its original features but has also been altered.

General Comments

Date of Survey

21 February 1998